The India Met Department has joined the watch for a fresh low-pressure area developing over north-west Bay of Bengal even as incumbent drives a vigorous monsoon over central and west parts.
The ‘low’ could materialise by Thursday, the Met said, promising a busy session over the East and North-East to start with.
The Met also agreed with the outlook that north-west India too will be awash with moisture during the rest of the week and slip under heavy rain cover occasionally during this period.
This will happen as rain bands are currently pummelling west Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa-Konkan-Mumbai and the rest of the West Coast extend into the North-West.
According to this outlook, west Rajasthan, east Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are the Met subdivisions to witness heavy to very heavy rainfall during the next three days.
This will spread to more parts of north-west India going forward, the Met Department said in its outlook valid for the four days from Thursday.
Lone ‘surplus’South interior Karnataka has turned in a ‘rain surplus’ (surplus of 20 per cent or more), the lone subdivision to be classified so as per latest statistics.
The rain deficit for the country as a whole stays at 16 per cent, with east Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh, and parts of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh wallowing in the ‘rain deficient’ category.
Meanwhile, the well-marked ‘low’ gave up some steam and weakened into a conventional ‘low’ on Monday evening.
But that does not mean any marked let-up in precipitation over contiguous west Madhya Pradesh, east Gujarat and Mumbai-Konkan.
Rain outlookSeptember 2, Tuesday: Heavy to very rainfall with extremely heavy falls for Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch. It will be heavy to very heavy rain for Konkan-Goa, Odisha and Vidarbha.
Heavy rain for Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, east Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Chhattisgarh, coastal Karnataka, south interior Karnataka and Kerala.